[Debconf-team] budget status (was: Re: Status on Brandts Hotel)

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:13:22PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > agreed. see last budget thing in irc... (search "surplus" our "net") but > let's try to cut costs wherever we can. we are deep into the dc11 > surplus. maybe negotiate flexibility? > > 10k or 5k more would require thought... Her

[Debconf-team] keeping track of food (was: Re: budget status (was: Re: Status on Brandts Hotel))

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:19:17AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > Still, everyone should be in full-on "penny-pinching" mode. a) Try to > reduce food costs as much as possible via good application of a meal > ticket system. It would be amazing if this could happen: today, someone goes and copies

[Debconf-team] front desk related documents (ledger/food ticket sales)

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
Hi, I have made some documents which could be useful to the front desk. I expect people on site will want to change both of them before using them, since The first is a daily ledger, to use to keep track of all money that goes into and out of the front desk cash box. It's designed to have one p

Re: [Debconf-team] budget status (was: Re: Status on Brandts Hotel)

2012-06-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > b) try to negotiate with hotels to be able to reduce > costs from things like people not showing up or leaving early (big > one! maybe booking extra seminole rooms will provide a chance to > negotiate better terms). Sadly, the hotel conditi

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: Budget status - travel sponsorship)

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:35:20AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > [debconf-surplus] For readers of -project, here's what this means: > > Sponsors slowly pledge money over the spring, and we usually are in a > > panic about "oh no,

Re: [Debconf-team] front desk related documents (ledger/food ticket sales)

2012-06-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > Anyway, these are just to get something started, to encourage better > tracking this year than past years. > > Henning is the on-site accountant and can work to make the actual > procedures. > Thanks for the helpful forms so far! I wonder a

Re: [Debconf-team] budget status (was: Re: Status on Brandts Hotel)

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 02:33:09PM -0600, Henning Sprang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > > b) try to negotiate with hotels to be able to reduce > > costs from things like people not showing up or leaving early (big > > one! maybe booking extra seminole rooms will

Re: [Debconf-team] budget status (was: Re: Status on Brandts Hotel)

2012-06-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > But, another, perhaps easier to do idea: if people don't show up, see > if you can resell those rooms to other people that want a place to > stay? I realize this will take a significant amount of work... might or might not - it's good to po

Re: [Debconf-team] front desk related documents (ledger/food ticket sales)

2012-06-30 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 05:02:47PM -0600, Henning Sprang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > > Anyway, these are just to get something started, to encourage better > > tracking this year than past years. > > > > Henning is the on-site accountant and can work to make th

Re: [Debconf-team] front desk related documents (ledger/food ticket sales)

2012-06-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > to get money out of FFIS, you have this > http://www.ffis.de/Verein/Reimbursement.ps > SPI has a similar form > ... Thanks, I have some of them printed and will make more copies when at UCA tomorrow. > DebConf doesn't have it's own form,